TBR of Doom--What I'm Reading (Patreon)

My brain is always a little mushy after I turn in a book, and it didn't help that I immediately turned to writing another book almost the next day. (My first book without magic in it?!? But lots of murder, so that's good.) Still, brain-mush or not, I have to read or...what else would I do? Get a hobby? HAHAHAHAHA.

No.

On audio I've been catching up on the last two Veronica Speedwell books by Deanna Raybourn. I love these books and I think the narrator does a pretty good job with the books (Adult, Mystery). Veronica is funny and smart and brave, but also flawed--she gets blinded by her own reasoning at times and can be very stubborn. The last book I listened to, The Impossible Imposter, revealed a lot about her character and caused her relationship with Stoker (I adore Stoker) to hit a rough patch. So I immediately had to start the latest audiobook, A Sinister Revenge. As soon as that book is up, I'm going to listen to Love Will Tear Us Apart by C.K. McDonnell, the third book in the Stranger Times series. I had emailed Libro.FM about getting the audiobooks because I prefer to buy through them, and they emailed me as soon as the book was available. This is what I love about them--you request a book or have an issue, and you talk to an actual person and they do what they can to get you what you need! I love it. Have I mentioned that the sells help Indie bookstores? Because they do.

The Tracers series by Laura Griffin (Adult, Romantic Thriller)--I've been in the mood to read romantic thrillers, but I often have a hard time finding ones that I like for a variety of reasons. I liked this series because they tended to focus on the crime scene folks and I will forever be a forensics nerd. These are fast, light reads --light in that they aren't in-depth but meant to entertain, which I don't see as a negative trait at all and entirely what I needed. But they aren't "light" in tone per se because people are getting murdered and there's discussion of violence, sexual assault, murder, and bodies in various states of decomposition. I've now read all thirteen of them, and I've read her Texas Murder Files series.

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (Adult, Fantasy)--I'm about halfway through this one and it probably could have fit into the last TBR post because the book is set on a cold, atmospheric little village. Emily is from Oxford and she's come to the island to study the reclusive Hidden Ones, the local faeries on the island for part of her comprehensive encyclopedia. Emily falls into my category of prickly, socially awkward pragmatic heroines. 

The other book on my docket is Kristi Charish's new work in progress--so I can't really say anything about that. However, she has her Kincaid series that's worth mentioning if you like my books because they're about a necromancer in Seattle! Full disclosure, Kristi is a friend, but I read one of her books before we became friends, so I'm fine recommending them. They're adult urban fantasy.

What books have you been reading? Add to my overwhelming TBR pile!

--Lish